This was a tragic week if you were a Chicago Cubs fan and most of the nation was this week. Baseball fans all over the country were hoping that the Chicago Cubs would finally get to the World Series for the first time since 1945 and maybe even win the World Series for the first time since 1908, 9

It's not every day that you hear about a tiger attack. But this week we've been hearing about two. On Friday night, October 3, Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy was mauled by a Royal White tiger named Montecore at the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas where they have performed thousands of shows together

Last Sunday, Jennifer gave me one of the best birthday presents ever, five tickets to the final Phillies game at beautiful Veteran's Stadium. What a gal! She actually bought the tickets last January, the day they went on sale. And it was a good thing because they sold out in one day.

This morning we want to spend our teaching time answering some of the questions that came out of our recent series in Genesis, especially the early chapters of the book that dealt with the creation of the cosmos and humankind.

This week I read a story about a young woman who sang a solo in front a large audience. Her vocal technique was excellent, her intonation was superb, and the range of her voice was unmatched. It was beautiful. The man who had written the piece of music that she was singing was sitting in the au

Recently, I received an e-mail from a sixty year-old man who was about to undergo a heart transplant. That's major surgery. A number of us at Valley View have been praying for him because he's the brother of Rose Brewer who's been part of our church community since the very beginning. In the e-

I've been thinking a lot about names this week because the character in our story today gets his name changed. Every one of us has a name. And most of us have the same name that we were born with, unless we changed it when were married or for some other reason.

This morning Valley View joins over 300,000 churches from 130 countries around the world to observe the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. Today we remember our brothers and sisters all over the world who are suffering just because they believe "Jesus loves me this I

Who owns the Holy Land? Who has the right to the land that the Arabs call Palestine and the Jews call Israel? Hardly a day passes without some bloody conflict between these two passionate peoples, both who call Abraham their father.